Done, the logo is now 80 pixels high instead of 150 before ! Much better..I'm waiting for WilliamDenniss' approval&help to make a full switch.I have not transfered docs on the new site yet, the links point to the old site, because I'm going to do a global review of Xith doc, and I'll see what to keep and what to clean/rewrite/write from scratch.

I've made several improvements to the new website. Added the Credits, License, Projects and Features articles, added a 16x16 icon to the site, modified top menu (filled with useful informations).I'm still waiting for authorization to make a full switch.

I'm afraid it's not possible. Joomla! is a CMS and it manage content automatically, I think I can't change the name of the pages. What I can do, however, is making redirections from http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith/Docs to the right page.

Oh, and by the way how do we change the domain name. How do you handle hosting, Will ?

I'm afraid it's not possible. Joomla! is a CMS and it manage content automatically, I think I can't change the name of the pages. What I can do, however, is making redirections from http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith/Docs to the right page.

That's a pity. I realise we can make the redirections fairly easy, so at least the main menu options can have nice links. Ah well.

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Oh, and by the way how do we change the domain name. How do you handle hosting, Will ?

I was thinking I'd just give you the FTP/cPanel passwords for you to set the site up on the xith.org server.

Design wise, I personally prefer to reduce the amount of stock images used and use actual images relating to Xith3D instead. E.g. on the download page, a couple of cool screen shots could work nicely (e.g. with the toolkit, some loaded models)

I've never used Joomla before, I assume it is easy to have multiple users set up with different permissions so they can create and edit pages?

I'm afraid it's not possible. Joomla! is a CMS and it manage content automatically, I think I can't change the name of the pages. What I can do, however, is making redirections from http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith/Docs to the right page.

That's a pity. I realise we can make the redirections fairly easy, so at least the main menu options can have nice links. Ah well.

Can't we use URL rewriting to give nice names to selected URLs? It is a common practice for bigger portal engines such as Apache JetSpeed 2 etc. There is a mod_rewrite module for Apache, and it is very easy to do rewriting in Tomcat using filters.

Can't we use URL rewriting to give nice names to selected URLs? It is a common practice for bigger portal engines such as Apache JetSpeed 2 etc. There is a mod_rewrite module for Apache, and it is very easy to do rewriting in Tomcat using filters.

This is beyond my knowledge, but if you know how to do that, I'll give you privileges to do so.

Oh, and by the way how do we change the domain name. How do you handle hosting, Will ?

I was thinking I'd just give you the FTP/cPanel passwords for you to set the site up on the xith.org server.

OK for FTP, but a problem is Joomla! uses a SQL database so wether I can uses the sql.free.fr database or I can copy the data on an other database currently hosted on xith.org (you have MySQL support, don't you ? )

That's right, that's part of the TODO list to transfer the documentation. But as I'm thinking about rewriting it I'm still reluctant to move the existant one. However this can be a transitional, temporary solution.

Design wise, I personally prefer to reduce the amount of stock images used and use actual images relating to Xith3D instead. E.g. on the download page, a couple of cool screen shots could work nicely (e.g. with the toolkit, some loaded models)

That's right, and stock images were put by lack of time.. I'll modify that when I'll have time but I consider writing docs more important. And as soon as I'll do serious test-cases for the loaders we'll have some screenshots.

Can't we use URL rewriting to give nice names to selected URLs? It is a common practice for bigger portal engines such as Apache JetSpeed 2 etc. There is a mod_rewrite module for Apache, and it is very easy to do rewriting in Tomcat using filters.

This is beyond my knowledge, but if you know how to do that, I'll give you privileges to do so.

I agree, mod_rewrite is very popular, this is what I setup with tikiwki currently on Xith.org. tikiwiki is different in that the unique ID is a nice english string which works nicely with mod_rewrite.

Oh, and by the way how do we change the domain name. How do you handle hosting, Will ?

I was thinking I'd just give you the FTP/cPanel passwords for you to set the site up on the xith.org server.

OK for FTP, but a problem is Joomla! uses a SQL database so wether I can uses the sql.free.fr database or I can copy the data on an other database currently hosted on xith.org (you have MySQL support, don't you ? )

That's right, that's part of the TODO list to transfer the documentation. But as I'm thinking about rewriting it I'm still reluctant to move the existant one. However this can be a transitional, temporary solution.

OK. Idealy we'd totally wipe tikiwiki on the change over (there are a LOT of .php files from tikiwiki which make it a bit confusing).

Design wise, I personally prefer to reduce the amount of stock images used and use actual images relating to Xith3D instead. E.g. on the download page, a couple of cool screen shots could work nicely (e.g. with the toolkit, some loaded models)

That's right, and stock images were put by lack of time.. I'll modify that when I'll have time but I consider writing docs more important. And as soon as I'll do serious test-cases for the loaders we'll have some screenshots.

I'm afraid it's not possible. Joomla! is a CMS and it manage content automatically, I think I can't change the name of the pages. What I can do, however, is making redirections from http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith/Docs to the right page.[...]

Would be odd if it wouldnt support clean urls. Its one of those default features a CMS must have.

After googling around a bit... (geez that joomla page is certainly annoying to navigate)... looks like you need some extra module for that (not in core... duh) and its called "404_sef".

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